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This blog is now a tool for me to keep on track with my daily Japanese studies. I will occasionally post new vocabulary as I learn it, or maybe I will post Japanese diary entries. Who knows? This is the Internet--anything can happen.

A frequent radical is 言. We see it in 読む, 話す, and other kanji relating to words, language, speech.

Here, it's paired with 呉 from 呉れる, which means "to give."

But if you think that 言 + 呉 = 誤, you'd be MISTAKEN. At least, if you look at the Japanese meanings.

For this etymology, let's go back to the Chinese. 呉 in China can refer to "boisterous verbal exchange." If you add the radical for talking in there, let's all take the semantic leap with me and say that 言 + 呉 = too much talking, and too much talking → mistakes.

Important:

Although we feel there's a strong semantic connection between making mistakes and making apologies, 誤る (ayamaru) is NOT the same kanji as to apologize (謝る, also ayamaru).